Given the nature of both this sculpture and its creator however, it would have been entirely possible to justify complete destruction of this "artwork." It protrays a 14 year old ballarina in an era when this was an exploitiative art, with young girls often required to do sex work as a condition of advancing or even staying in the ballet. It also was originally exhibited with protrayals of people deemed "criminals," known as "little rat"-and done by an artist who believed criminals and nonwhite people were lower forms of human evolution with considerable physical differences.

https://www.thecollector.com/why-did-edgar-degas-little-dancer-cause-scandal/

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